
Review | My Happy Family — what passes for women’s joy in Georgia
My Happy Family is a portrait of a middle-aged Georgian woman who dares to get a room — and a life — of her own.

My Happy Family is a portrait of a middle-aged Georgian woman who dares to get a room — and a life — of her own.

Balkar director Said Tolgurov’s second film works to ground the viewer through the breathtaking, mountain landscape of Kabarda–Balkaria.

Long before Mikheil Kalatozov became a master of Soviet cinema, he made a Georgian film the regime could not forgive.

A Room of My Own is an intimate but unfinished portrait of female friendship, desire, and self-discovery in contemporary Tbilisi.

Russian director Maria Rigel’s latest film is a disappointingly slow-moving look at Armenian society that is more incomprehensible than enlightening.

Malika Musaeva’s film is an uncompromisingly depressing look into how little agency young women in the North Caucasus have in their own lives.

The quiet and compassionate documentary Hotel Metalurg is less about losing a home than about learning, painfully, how to live without one.